History & Geology
The Birimian Greenstone Belts of West Africa
July 2013 by Chris Ralph
The country we were to visit was Burkina Faso, a small country about the same size of my home state of Nevada with about 10 times more people. The second day I was in Africa, we went out to the goldfields for the first time.
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